enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Template:Convert/list of units - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Convert/list_of_units

   conversion combination output units the system(s) to which the unit belongs units listed by name unit-code to use in template symbols shown in output other notes about the units sample of the default conversion for the unit output codes for multiple conversions

3. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conversion_factors

   Conversions between units in the metric system are defined by their prefixes (for example, 1 kilogram = 1000 grams, 1 milligram = 0.001 grams) and are thus not listed in this article. Exceptions are made if the unit is commonly known by another name (for example, 1 micron = 10 −6 metre).

4. Metric conversion - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_conversion

   Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Metric conversion may refer to: Converting a non-metric ...

5. List of metric units - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metric_units

   Metric units are units based on the metre, gram or second and decimal (power of ten) multiples or sub-multiples of these. According to Schadow and McDonald, [ 1 ] metric units, in general, are those units "defined 'in the spirit' of the metric system, that emerged in late 18th century France and was rapidly adopted by scientists and engineers.

6. International System of Units - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units

   The conversion between different SI units for one and the same physical quantity is always through a power of ten. This is why the SI (and metric systems more generally) are called decimal systems of measurement units. [10] The grouping formed by a prefix symbol attached to a unit symbol (e.g. ' km ', ' cm ') constitutes a new inseparable unit ...

7. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_weights_and_measures

   Conversion table for drinking vessel–⁠based British culinary measurement units and their metric and US customary equivalents 1 tumbler 1 breakfast cup 1 cup 1 teacup 1 coffee cup 1 wine glass 10 fluid ounces / ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ pint 8 fluid ounces / ⁠ 2 / 5 ⁠ pint 6 fluid ounces / ⁠ 3 / 10 ⁠ pint 5 fluid ounces / ⁠ 1 / 4 ⁠ pint

8. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_units

   Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property.

9. Metric Conversion Act - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act

   The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 is an Act of Congress that was signed into law by U.S. President Gerald Ford on December 23, 1975. [1] It declared the metric system "the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce", but permitted the use of United States customary units in all activities.